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Wee Kheng Chiang (simplified Chinese: 黄庆昌; traditional Chinese: 黃慶昌; pinyin: Huáng Qìng Chāng; Jyutping: Wong4 Hing3 Coeng1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ûiⁿ Khèng-chhiang; 1890–1978) was a Malaysian Chinese businessman of Quemoy Bân-lâm Hoklo ancestry who founded the United Chinese Bank (now United Overseas Bank) and Bian Chiang Bank ...
Wee joined the board of directors of the United Chinese Bank (now the United Overseas Bank) in 1958. He was appointed managing director of the bank two years later; and when his father Wee Kheng Chiang, founder of United Chinese Bank, retired in 1974, Wee succeeded him as
Dato' Wee Kheng Chiang (Cina ringkas: 黄庆昌; Cina tradisional: 黃慶昌; pinyin: Huáng Qìng Chāng; 22 Julai 1890 – 1978) merupakan seorang ahli perniagaan Malaysia dari Sarawak. Beliau ialah pengasas United Overseas Bank (UOB), dahulu dikenali sebagai United Chinese Bank, dan bapa kepada Wee Cho Yaw .
Feb 29, 2024 · Cho Yaw’s father, Wee Kheng Chiang, founded UOB in 1935 and it is now worth more than US$35 billion, while the family’s UOL Group is one of Singapore’s biggest real estate developers.
History. The bank was formed from the merging of various banks that had existed throughout the decades: [11] Bian Chiang Bank, established in 1924 in Kuching by Wee Kheng Chiang. Its primary activities were business financing and the issuance of bills of exchange.
May 31, 2019 · Wee Kheng Chiang founded the bank in 1935 before passing it on to his son Wee Cho Yaw in 1960. Now 90, Mr Wee Cho Yaw embarked on a series of takeovers that included 10 banks. The...
Feb 4, 2024 · Wee Cho Yaw, the billionaire who shaped Singapore’s financial landscape by amalgamating several old family-controlled banks, has died. He was 95. The former chairman of United Overseas Bank...
Feb 5, 2024 · The family fled to Sarawak when war between Japan and China broke out. He joined Kheng Leong, the company founded by Kheng Chiang in 1949 and assumed management of what was then called United Chinese Bank in 1960. Wee introduced new services like foreign-exchange dealing and expanded it regionally.
Feb 4, 2024 · Mr Wee was born in Kinmen in 1929, six years before his father, Mr Wee Kheng Chiang, co-founded the United Chinese Bank (UCB), the precursor to UOB, in 1935. In 1958, he joined the board...
Feb 3, 2024 · has passed away. He was 95. For decades, Wee is synonymous with the bank his father Kheng Chiang founded in 1935 in Sarawak, to a leading Singapore-based international banking group with a market value of around $50 billion.
